Registering device.



PATENT-ED JAN. 21, 1908.

R. HUNTER. REGISTERING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1907 2 SHEETS-$HEET l.

- INVENTOH 306.3%022'121 ATTORNEYS WITNESSES No. 877,430. PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

E. HUNTER.

REGISTERING DEVICE. APPLICATION I ILED MAR.14. 1907.

' 2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

ATTORNEYS ROSS HUNTER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

REGISTERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed March 14. 15207 Serial No. 362312.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ross HUNTER, a citizenof'the United States, and a resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State ful Improvement in Registering Devices, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device especially'adapted for temporarily holding linen or laundry work and for registering the number of pieces held by the machine.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the machinethat the various articles may be readily placed therein one after the other, and-"wherein as each article is in troducedinto the machine a record thereof will be automatically established.

It is also a-purpose of the invention to provide means whereby the articles may be quickly and conveniently released from the machine when so desired and simultaneonsl the recording mechanism be brought and economic, and capable of being conven iently and expeditiously operated.

The invention consists in the novelconstruction 'and combination of the several parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifica tion, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 isa front elevation of themachine; Fig.-'2 is an edge view or side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the machine with the cover plate removed and likewise the mechanism that receives the articles;-Fig. 4 is a detailed plan view of one of the registering bars; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a controlling slide for such a bar as is shown in Fig. 4,-Fig. -6 is an edge view of the slide shown in Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 is an enlarged side elevation of the upper end portion of one of the registering bars. K

The back or base A of the device may be of any desired character and may be made of any suitable material. At the up er right hand corner of the said base or bac A a longitudinal slot or groove 10 is produced hava stop 11 at its upper end, and in this slot or groove 10, a slide 12 is mounted for movement, and furthermore the said slot or groove 10 is provided with a longitudinal r opening 13 at its -upper portion below theof Georgia, have invented a newand usestep 11. I lever 14 is mounted in the slide 12 adj acent to its upper end, although the said lever may occ'upyanother position if necessary.

This lever has bearing against a wall 14 wlnch is the upper end of a slot produced in the recessed portion 10 of the back A, and when this lever is drawn downward it bears against the said upper wall -14: and tends at such time to move the slide 12 in a downward direction, since the lever 14 is pivotally connected with the said slide 12, as is shown in Figs. 2 and SJ The-lever 14 extends through the body A and at'its rear portion is connected by a link 15'with' a second slide 16 parallel to the slide 12 which slide 16 has movement in suitable guideways 17 secured upon the front face of the back A, as is par tieularly shown in Fig. 3. At the lower end of the said seciiiid slide 16 a dog 18 is pivotally mounted and below the slide 16 and also below the dog 18, a pawl 21 is pivoted to the front face of the back A and thesaid pawl and the said dog are connected by a spring 20, which spring acts to normallycarry the two said members 18 and 21 teen u ward position. The dog 18,.however, is limited in its upward movement by means of a stop pin 19 that is made to extend forwardly from the back A. The slide .12 is carried normally to its upward position when released preferably 1 in the following manner:

A lever 22 is centrally pivoted transversely at the upper portion of the back A, and this lever has a connection 24 with the slide 12 at the upper end of the latter and the opposite end of the said lever 22 is connected with a spring 23, which spring is secured to the back A in any suitable or approved manner, as is best shown in Fig. 3, the tendency of the spring being to carry the slide 12 in an upward position or to an engagement with the stop 11'. The ivot pin connecting the lever 22 with the sli e 12 extends through the opening 13 in therecessed portion 10 of the back heretofore referred to.

At the right side of the back A two guide rods 25 are made to extend from the bottom to the top of the said back and these. guide rods pass out each side of the aforesaid slide '12, and consequently the lever 14 will be ahnost centrally between the said guide rods ward face of the back A and may be carried 25. The guide rods are bent at their upper ends and are secured to the upper portion of the'ba'ck A and are removed some. distance from the forward face of said dog. The

ide'rods at their lower ends are secured in a bracket 26 located at the lower portion of the dog and the said bracketis provided with a central opening 27 in its horizontal;

member, since the said bracket 26 is of angular formationQ A retaining bar 28 guide rods 25, and the said retaining bar 28 outwardly therefrom or inwardly thereto,

. in the latter case occupying a position practically parallel and in the same horizontal plane with the guide rods 25.

,The'articles to be countedare passed beneath the retaining bar and in being so passed are broughtm engagement with the lever 14 operating said lever and in consequence also operating the slides 12 and 16. The articlesare passed down one after the other as far as possible into a space intervening between the retaining bar 28 and the I front face of the back'jA and aseach article is'so' placed in positionon the device it is registered'by a mechanism to. be "hereinafter described.

"Atthe left of that portion of the front face of the back A occupied by the retaining bar.

28 and its associated parts, channel irons are longitudinally located, which channel irons be made of cast or wrought'material, or

may 7 made from tin or a'hke material.

may be These channel irons-32 which may be more 'commodate beneath them slides or shifting possible.

properly termed guide troughs, are parallel wit 5 7 each other and are. adjacent to each other, being referably arranged as closely as These channel guides or troughs 32 are moved in any approved manner from the front face of the back A in 'orderto acplates B,.which slides or shifting plates, as is shown in awide upper portion or section33 that practically corresponds to the width of the bottom of a'guide chute 33 and with a reduced lower shank 33 that extends beyond the lug 35atthesame side edge, both of the lugs. 34 and lower endofatheguide chute beneath which the shifting plate is located, and each of the shifting plates B is provided with a forwardly extending lug 34 at onesideportion of its er end and with a second corresponding beingfonithe' wider portionsof the plates, as'is shown in Figs. 5 and is located between the provided at its upper end with a suitable;

Figs. 5 and 6,- are constructed with emcee 6, andaforwardly extending pin 36 is located i at the lower end 'of each slide or shifting plate B, as is also shown in Figs. -5 and '6,

which pins are for a purpose to' be herein-- after named.

Each channel adapted to receive a registering bar 0 t at is produced upon its front face numerals reaching from naught to nine-inclusive. Each of the said registering bars C is provided with ratchet teeth 37 in one of its side faces, as is bestshown in Fig. 4, and also on the outer face of each of the registering bars C near its lower end, a recess 38 is formed, in each of which recesses a lever 39 is pivotedand at the lower end of each lever a dog 40, is pivotally mounted and the reces'ses38 areso. formed that when'the levers38 containing them are thrown in direction of the ratchet" teeth 37 the dogs 40 connected with the lever 39 are given an iipward inclination and are iron or guide trou h is.-

rigidly held in position, and at theupper end of eachlever 39 for each registering bar C a head 40 is formed that extends forwardly. At the upper end of each of the registering bar'sCa lug 41 is lbcated, and a lug 42 isalso located adjacent to the lower end of each of the registering bars, as is clearly illustrated" inFig.4. i

In the drawings I have shown three chaning bar in the initial or left-hand channel iron or guide trough is adapted to expose units, the next tens, and the next hundreds, but I desire to be understood that any desired number of channel irons or guide troughs .32 may be employed; The units or initial channel irons or guide-troughs 32 'dif: fer from the others in that a stationary hig 43 extends from the back A through it, as is shown in Fig. 3, and each channel iron 32 is provided with a partition about'centrally' located and in each of the said partitions a slot 45 is made, having. aninclined lower section '46, as is shown. in .Fig. 3. The ratchet teeth 37 of the registering barsC having movement in the tens and the hunnel II'OILS orguide-troughs 32 and the reg1sterdreds channel irons or guide troughs are adapted to be engaged by spring pawls 47 as.

is shown in Figi 3, and the said channel irons or troughs have-suitable openings therein to permit the upward passage and the sliding movement of the lugs 34 and'35 of the sliding plates B, and'also have openings therein to i permit the inward passage of the dog 18 and the pawl 21, and itmay be here remarked that the stationary lug 43 of the tens channel iron or guide trough is located between the lugs 34 and 35 of the sliding plate B that moves 'below the said channelirons and furthermore, the tens and the hundereds chan nel irons or guide troughs are provided with openings through which the spring pawls 47 -may extend, I

the'spi'ing pawls 47 may be located "directly but it be understood that within the said troughs or channel irons so as to engage with the teeth 37 of the registering bars havin movement therein, and I do not limit myse'f to any particular form of pawl for engagement with the teeth 37 of the tens and hundreds registering bars, or to any particular location for said pawls.

A plate 48 is located at the lower end portion of all of the registering bars C, and the said plate 48 is a sliding plate and is provided with a shank extension 49 and .moves'in a strap guide 50, and. the said plate 48 is provided-with a series of slots 51, each of which slots receives a pin 36 from the shifting plate 5.B,'.as is also shown in Fig. 3.- The shank section of the plate 48 has movement in guide-ways'52 .producedupon the back Af and at the lower end of the said guides 52 a, bracket 53'is located and, in this bracket/a shaft 54 is mounted in turn, whichshaft 'is provided'with a crank arm 55 at one end that in one movementof the shaft has lifting engagement with the retaining bar 28, and at the other end of the said shaft 54 a handle 56 is secured whereby to operate said shaft.

In the operation of the device the material is assed down between the guide rails 25 an the retaining bar 28 as hasbeen stated, and as each iece is so passed the lever 14 is 30-depressed. lhis lever 14 as it is depressed o crates the'slide 12 and also operates the s 'de 16, causing the dog 18 to have an upward movement whereby to carry the units registering bar C upward one notch to display one numeral produced thereon and at the same time the pawl 21 engaging with the' notched or toothed portion 37 of the units registering bar will prevent the said bar from dropping downward. When the units bar,

40 for example, has been carried upward a sufficient distance to register nine at the display opening to be hereinafter described, the next movement of the said units registering bar 0 will cause the dog 40 carried thereby to lift the tens registering bar at the next movement of the lever 14 one notch and after the tensbar has been moved upward nine times its dog 40 will lift up the hundreds registering bar one notch so as to show at the opening, hereinafter to be referred to, the registering of the number ofpieces contained between the bar 28 and the guides 25.

When the units registering bar C reaches the limit of its upward movement, thelower lug 42 of the said units registering bar will :engage with the lower lug 35 on the sliding plate below it and will raise the said sliding plate to such an extent that the pawl 21 will be carried out of engagement with the teeth 37 of the said units registering bar, whereupon the said bar can drop to assume its normal position but when the said bar reaches its lowest or normal position the upper lug 41 'on the said bar will engage with the upper to lug of the sliding plate beneath and wil reat the opening 58 produced store the said sliding plate t1 its normal position, bringing the pawl 21 again in engagement with the ratchet teeth 37 of said units registering bar, and as the shifting plate B located beneath the units registering bar is to move the crank arm 55 beneath the re taining bar 28 lifting said bar so that, for example, napkins will drop out from the machine and at the same time the plate 48 will be raised, fs'ince said plate 48 is connected with the'shaft 54 by means of a link 60, and the said plate 48 will be elevated so as to bring all of the registering-.barsC down into their normal positions, exposing the ciphers I in a cover plate 57 as is shown in Fig. 1. 4

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a registering device for laundry or smular articles, a supporting body, a retaining means for the articles and between which and the said body the articles are assed, the said retaining means being 1110\ ':1)l6 toward and from the body, and a registering device operated by the passage of the articles between the registering means and the supporting body.

2. In a registering device for laundry or similar articles, a retaining means for the articles and a registering device operated by the passage of the articles-to the retaining means, and a releasing device for the retaining means and the registering device.

3. In a machine for registering and holding laundry and similar articles, a body section,

a retaining bar, a guide bar between which the retaining bar operates, registering bars having sliding movement on the body, and means for operating the registering bars by the passage of articles between the retaining bar and the said guides.

4. in a machine for registering and holding laundry aid similar articles, a body sei-tion, a retaining bar, a guide bar between which the retaining bar operates, registering bars having sliding movement on the body, means for operating the registcriu g bars by the pas sage of articles between the retainii'ig bar and the said guides; and means for simultaneously lifting the retaining bar to free the articles held thereby and bring the registering bars into initial position. 5. In a laundry registering device, a body section, guide bars-carried thereby, a retainregistering bars step by step to. expose one number after the other, the registering bars v ing bar located b'etween the guide bars capable of being carried to and from the body section, a lever located between the guide bars adjacent to the upper or receiving portiori'of the retaining bar, registering bars having numerals produced thereon, and means connected with the said lever whereby to remove the being arranged in the order of units; tens, hundreds, one registering bar having 'means for operating the adjoining'regis'tering ban-.

in a laundry registering device, a body section, guide bars carried thereby, 'a retain: bar located between the guidebars 'capa-j ble of being carried to and frornthe body'sec tion, a lever located between the guide bars, adjacent to the upper or receiving portionof the retaining bar, registeringbars-havingnumerals produced thereon, means connected with the said iever whereby-to remove the registering bars step by step ,to expose one, number afterthe other, the registering bars being arranged in the order of units, tens, hundreds, one registeringbar having means for operating the adjoining registering bar, means for carrying the retaining bar to releasing position, and simultaneously restor ing the registering bars to their initial posi tio'n. v

' 7. In amachin'e for registering and holding laundry or similar articles, a body SQOtlOIl provided with aguide, a retaining means having parallel movement toward and from Y the body section, and between which and the said guide the articles are passed, a register-- ing device, and means for operating the registeringdeviceby. the passage of the articles i between the said guide and: the retaining means. g

- 8. In a machinefor registering and holding laundry and similar articles, a body section, a guideicarri d thereby, a retaining means, movable tow d and fr'ornthe bodyvsection, a'lever located adjacent to thereceiving porthe passageof the articles between the'guide and the-retaining nieans, a'registering de-- vice, and "connections between the said lever: and thegregisteringdevice' for operating the" la-tter.- 1 y 9; In a'machinejforregistering and holding laundry'andsimilararticles, a bodysection,

a guide carried thereby, a retaining means movable toward and from the body section, a lever located-adjacent to the receiving or-.'

tion of the retaining means, and move bythe passage of the articles b'etwecn'the guide and the retaining means, slides operated @by the said lever, aregistering mechanism, and- ,rn-eans for actuating the registering-mechanisrh by the movement of saidslide's.

In testimony whereof I have" signed my name to this specification inthepres'ence of two subscribing-witnesses,

' ROSS HUNTER.

' Witnesses:

-En1 vn. JONES,' v

ALFRED A. CUNNINGHAM. 

